Ma (kana)

ま, in hiragana, or マ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is made in three strokes, while the katakana in two. Both represent [ma].

Form	Rōmaji	Hiragana	Katakana
Normal m- (ま行 ma-gyō)	ma	ま	マ
	maa mā, mah	まあ, まぁ まー	マア, マァ マー

ma
hiragana katakana
transliteration	ma
hiragana origin	末
katakana origin	末
spelling kana	マッチのマ Matchi no "ma"
unicode	U+307E, U+30DE
braille

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ま

Stroke order in writing マ

Stroke order in writing ま

The hiragana ま is made with three strokes:

1. An upper horizontal line from left to right.
2. Another horizontal line going from left to right under the first stroke.
3. A vertical line from top to bottom, then a small loop towards the left, which then crosses the vertical line going to the right.

Stroke order in writing マ

The katakana マ is made with two strokes:

1. A horizontal line from left to right, accompanied with a diagonal line towards the bottom-left.
2. A small line at the end of the diagonal line.

Other communicative representations

Japanese radiotelephony alphabet	Wabun code
マッチのマ Matchi no "Ma"	▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄

Japanese Navy Signal Flag	Japanese semaphore	Japanese manual syllabary (fingerspelling)	Braille dots-1356 Japanese Braille

• Full Braille representation

ま / マ in Japanese Braille
ま / マ ma	まあ / マー mā	Other kana based on Braille ま
		みゃ / ミャ mya	みゃあ / ミャー myā

• Computer encodings

Character information

Preview	ま		マ		ﾏ		㋮
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER MA		KATAKANA LETTER MA		HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MA		CIRCLED KATAKANA MA
Encodings	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex	decimal	hex
Unicode	12414	U+307E	12510	U+30DE	65423	U+FF8F	13038	U+32EE
UTF-8	227 129 190	E3 81 BE	227 131 158	E3 83 9E	239 190 143	EF BE 8F	227 139 174	E3 8B AE
Numeric character reference	ま	ま	マ	マ	ﾏ	ﾏ	㋮	㋮
Shift JIS[1]	130 220	82 DC	131 125	83 7D	207	CF
EUC-JP[2]	164 222	A4 DE	165 222	A5 DE	142 207	8E CF
GB 18030[3]	164 222	A4 DE	165 222	A5 DE	132 49 154 51	84 31 9A 33
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]	170 222	AA DE	171 222	AB DE
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]	198 226	C6 E2	199 118	C7 76
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]	199 101	C7 65	199 218	C7 DA

References

1. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-03-08]. "Shift-JIS to Unicode".
2. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "EUC-JP-2007". International Components for Unicode.
3. Standardization Administration of China (SAC) (2005-11-18). GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set.
4. Unicode Consortium; IBM. "IBM-970". International Components for Unicode.
5. Steele, Shawn (2000). "cp949 to Unicode table". Microsoft / Unicode Consortium.
6. Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02) [1994-02-11]. "BIG5 to Unicode table (complete)".
7. van Kesteren, Anne. "big5". Encoding Standard. WHATWG.